Moselle is the most populous department in Lorraine, in the northeast of France, and is named after the river Moselle, a tributary of the Rhine, which flows through the western part of the department. It had a population of 1,046,543 in 2019. Inhabitants of the department are known as Mosellans.
The following is a list of the 725 communes of the Moselle department of France.
Lorrain is a language spoken by now a minority of people in Lorraine in France, small parts of Alsace and in Gaume in Belgium. It is a langue d'oïl.
Hombourg-Haut is a commune located in the department of Moselle, region of Grand Est, in the cultural and historical region Lorraine, north-eastern France.
Saint-Avold is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
Boulay-Moselle is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in northeastern France. The former commune of Halling-lès-Boulay was incorporated in the commune in January 1973. Until 2015, Boulay-Moselle was a subprefecture of the Moselle department.
The five arrondissements of the Moselle department are:
- Arrondissement of Forbach-Boulay-Moselle, with 169 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 243,054 in 2016.
- Arrondissement of Metz, with 139 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 344,203 in 2016.
- Arrondissement of Sarrebourg-Château-Salins, with 230 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 92,282 in 2016.
- Arrondissement of Sarreguemines, with 83 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 99,226 in 2016.
- Arrondissement of Thionville, with 104 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 266,506 in 2016.
The arrondissement of Forbach is a former arrondissement of France in the Moselle department in the Lorraine region. In 2015 it was merged into the new arrondissement of Forbach-Boulay-Moselle. It had 73 communes, and its population was 167,518 (2012).
The following is a list of the 27 cantons of the Moselle department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015:
The Union Libérale Israélite de France, commonly referred to as the rue Copernic synagogue, is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the XVIe arrondissement of Paris, France. Inaugurated on 1 December 1907, it is the oldest Reform synagogue in France.
The University of Lorraine, abbreviated as UL, is a public research university based in Lorraine, Grand Est region, France. It was created on 1 January 2012, by the merger of Henri Poincaré University, Nancy 2 University, Paul Verlaine University – Metz and the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (INPL). It aimed to unify the main colleges of the Lorraine region. The merger process started in 2009 with the creation of a Pôle de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur (PRES) and was completed in 2012.
Bezirk Lothringen, also called German Lorraine, was a government region ("Bezirk") in the western part of Alsace-Lorraine when it was part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918.
The Civil Administration Area of Lorraine was an administrative division of the Gau Westmark from 1940 to 1945.
Annie Ousset-Krief, Ph.D. and associate professor at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, is a French historian and American Civilization specialist.
The arrondissement of Forbach-Boulay-Moselle is an arrondissement of France in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region. It has 169 communes. Its population is 243,054 (2016), and its area is 1,283.3 km2 (495.5 sq mi).
The Metz Citadel was a fort built at Metz, northeast France in the second half of the 16th century.
Isaiah Beer Bing was a French writer, translator, and Hebraist. He was one of the first members from France of the Haskalah movement.
The France–Luxembourg border stretches 73 kilometers in length, to the northeast of France and to the south of Luxembourg.
The Rashi Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on 5 rue Brunneval in Troyes, Grand Est, France. The synagogue is named after the medieval rabbi and biblical commentator Rashi, who was born and died in Troyes. A Sephardic synagogue, it is a member of the Consistoire central israélite de France. The site includes a museum, the Rashi House, a cultural center, and a library. The European University Rashi Institute,, located opposite the synagogue, is a research institute independent of the synagogue focused on Jewish studies, Semitic studies, and Monotheism.
Léon Israël, also known as Dr. Israël, born on January 13, 1906, in Kœnigsmacker and assassinated by the Milice of Lyon on April 27, 1944, in Mâcon was a French doctor, resistance fighter, and Jew. Before World War II, he pursued studies at the Faculty of Medicine in Strasbourg and quickly became a respected physician, collaborating notably with Max Aron.
